Park Lane

Park Lane is a major road in Central London, England. Originally a country lane, it became a fashionable residential address from the eighteenth century onwards, with several large mansions such as the Duke of Westminster's Grosvenor House and the Holford family's Dorchester House. After World War II the Lane was widened to three lanes each way either side of a central reservation, making it effectively an urban motorway. This required the demolition of a number of houses at Hyde Park Corner. It is one of the busiest and noisiest roads in central London, retaining little or none of the pastoral atmosphere that once made it popular. Access to Hyde Park is by underpass. In 2004 a memorial to Animals in War opened in Park Lane http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/news/397/59397.html

Former residents

• No. 93: Benjamin Disraeli - prime minister
• No. 99: Moses Montefiore - philanthropist
• No. 140: Keith Clifford Hall - contact lense pioneer
• Aldford House: Dame Anna Neagle - actress
• Grosvenor House: Hugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster - richest man in England, race horse owner, philanthropist.
• Londonderry House: Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry - cabinet minister